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Party activists raise slogans ‘Padayatra’ in Jerrila area today MAKAVARAPALEM (VISAKHAPATNAM DT.): CPI (M) district secretary Ch. Narsinga Rao on Wednesday accused the State Government of resorting to arm-twisting methods to acquire land from people in 13 villages in the mandal under the pretext of setting up an industrial park and later allot it on a platter to Ras Al-Khaimah (RAK) for its proposed alumina refinery. Launching ‘chaitanya ratham’ against bauxite mining and refinery at Ramannapalem amid slogans like ‘bauxite mining maaku voddu babu’ (we don’t want bauxite mining), he wondered why the government was hiding facts from the public and resorting to forcible acquisition under the garb of public interest to offer it to RAK, a kingdom of United Arab Emirates. Mr. Narasimha Rao alleged that the Congress and some Telugu Desam leaders had joined hands to weaken the agitation against the bauxite project and asked people to remain firm and not to accept the acquisition notices. He also took strong exception to threats by officials and Congress leaders to acquire lands even without the consent of farmers and others under whose occupation the lands exist. CPI (M) activists took out the ‘ratham’ in Chinnarajipalem, Yerrkanapalem, Rachapalli, Venkatapuram and other affected villages and explained the danger posed to their livelihood due to the bauxite project. The party will undertake a ‘padayatra’ in Jerrila area in the agency on Friday to protest against granting of mining permission by the Ministry of Mines to AP Mineral Development Corporation to extract bauxite ore. ‘Cooked-up data’Addressing the villagers, Mr. Narsinga Rao said the APMDC obtained permission for mining in four blocks in Jerrila hill range recently by submitting ‘cooked-up’ data to the Ministry of Mines. He said no survey team ever visited the mining site and questioned how mining permission was granted without clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He also lashed out at Union Minister of State for Mines T. Subbarami Reddy for facilitating the grant of mining permission to APMDC while not considering the applications of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant for sanction of iron ore mines. State president of Nirvasula Samkhema Sangham B. Tulasi Das, district general secretary of AP Rythu Sangham A. Balakrishna, Ramannapalem sarpanch Rajeswari and others took part.
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